IEEE 1584 · Engineering
Power Quality Analysis in Portugal - carelabs Portugal
Power quality analysis checks your electrical distribution system when it fails to sustain correct functioning of its loads — identifying the root cause, whether that's improper wiring, incorrect grounding, unbalanced loads, or improperly protected equipment, before it causes motor burnout, control system faults, power factor penalties, or transformer failure. Carelabs collects voltage, current, and power factor measurements at key points across your Portuguese facility using power quality analysers, referenced against IEEE Power Quality Standards and NFPA 70B, and delivers findings aligned with RTIEBT.
Free ConsultationSpecify for the supply you actually have
A compliant supply and equipment that trips on it can both be true at once. Where that happens, the productive question is not whose fault it is but what immunity the next purchase needs.
What We Deliver
The supply characterised properly
Dips, swells, interruptions, distortion, unbalance and flicker are measured and reported, with dips characterised by depth and duration rather than counted, because equipment survives or trips according to both.
WHY IT MATTERS
Buying equipment the supply will trip
Plants routinely install sensitive equipment onto a supply whose disturbance profile has never been measured, then absorb the resulting stoppages as an operating characteristic of the site rather than as a specification failure.
- Monitoring installed at the point of supply and at the affected process, since a dip that is modest at the incomer can be severe at the end of a loaded feeder.
- Measurement conducted to a defined method, so records are comparable against the distribution operator's own data where the cause proves to be upstream.
- Sufficient duration to capture intermittent events, because the disturbances causing the most disruption are by definition the least frequent.
- Records aligned with production logs, without which a measurement archive is data rather than evidence about a specific loss.
- Control systems assessed separately from process loads, as the interruption frequently originates in instrumentation rather than in the machinery itself.
DELIVERABLES
What you receive
Issued against RTIEBT and the recognised supply voltage characteristics, with measurement method and period stated.
- 1Event log characterising every dip, swell and interruption by depth and duration
- 2Distortion, unbalance and flicker assessed against applicable limits
- 3Comparison of recorded disturbances against the immunity of the affected equipment
- 4Origin determination for each significant event, internal or upstream
- 5An immunity specification usable as a purchasing requirement for replacement equipment
How the study runs
Establish what is stopping
We start from the symptom: which process halts, how often, and whether any pattern exists by shift, time of day or season.
Place instrumentation
Monitoring goes at the point of supply and at the affected equipment, because the difference between those two records frequently contains the answer.
Record across a real period
Measurement runs long enough to capture intermittent events, which do not occur on demand during a short visit.
Compare against immunity
Recorded disturbances are assessed against the tolerance of the affected equipment, which identifies which events were survivable and which were not.
Determine origin
Each significant event is classified as internal or upstream, since that decides both the appropriate remedy and who is able to apply it.
Specify and recommend
Mitigation is matched to the disturbance present, and an immunity specification is issued for equipment yet to be purchased.